1987
Chronocide Gallery, New York.

1988
“New Works,” Todd Capp Gallery, New York.

1989
La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles.

1991
La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles.

1992
Psychedelic Solution, New York.

1998
“Selections from Private Collections: A Retrospective” Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago. Ten paintings.

“Original Sin,” The Horse Hospital, London, England. Paintings, drawings and prints.

1999
“Joe Coleman: Matrix 139,” The Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford. Twelve paintings and an installation of the Odditorium.
Exhibit brochure: “Joe Coleman/Matrix 139: The Pathological Portraiture of Joe Coleman,” essay by Nicholas Baume, Curator of Contemporary Art.

“Recent Paintings, The Odditorium,” Jim Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles. Solo exhibition. Twelve paintings and an installation of the Odditorium.

2006
“Joe Coleman: 33 Paintings and a Selection from the Odditorium,” Jack Tilton Gallery, New York City.

Group Exhibitions

1985
Civilian Warfare, New York.

Limbo, New York.

1986
Civilian Warfare, New York.

Limbo, New York.

Chronocide, New York.

Wooster Gallery, New York.

1987
Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle.

New York Academy of Art, New York.

1993
“Cult Rapture,” Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle. Six paintings. Exhibition celebrating the Feral House book of the same name, included work by Jack Kevorkian, Charles Manson, and others.

1996
“Wild Flees/Proud Flesh,” Haarlem, The Netherlands. “DeVishal,” exhibition during Striptagen. Three paintings.

“Deep Inside: The Art of Porno,” The Musée d’art Contemporain Pornographique, Lausanne Switzerland. One painting.

1997
“Killer Art,” Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans. Three paintings.

“The End is Near!,” American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore. Three paintings.

Ozone Gallery, New York. Three paintings.

1998
“LOVE,” American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore. One painting.

2001
“Brooklyn/718,” Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach. One painting. Other artists included Bobby Neel Adams and Fred Tomaselli.

“War and Peace,” American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore. Other artists included Henry Darger, Adolf Wölfli, Paul Laffoley, and Frank Bruno. Two paintings.

“Hieronymus Bosch,” Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Joe Coleman’s The Man of Sorrows is included in the section of artists influenced by the master. Exhibit included works by James Ensor, Salvador Dalí, and Pieter Breughel.

2002
“The Circus in Twentieth Century American Art,” The Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford. Other artists included Reginald Marsh, Diane Arbus, and John Stewart Curry. Traveled to the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, FL.

“Wormhole,” Franz Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands. Eight paintings.

“Acquiring Taste” Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT. Exhibition included works by Walton Ford, Chuck Close, and Tony Fitzpatrick. One painting.

2003
“Unquiet Voices: English & American Visionary Art 1903 - 2003'. Chamber of Pop Culture, The Horse Hospital, London. This exhibition features work by Joe Coleman, Nick Blinko, Donald Pass, Vonn Stropp, Paul Rumsey, Austin Spare, Charles Benefiel, Norbert Kox, Laurie Lipton, Malcolm McKesson.

2004
"A Kansas Art Sampler" The Spencer Art Museum, Lawrence,Kansas. Featured painting: "The Ballad of Quantrill's Raiders."

"200 Artists See Satan", California State University Fullerton, GRAND CENTRAL ART CENTER, Santa Ana, California 92701